# As Time Goes By

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- Authors: [Bob Larbey](https://www.bookquiver.com/bob-larbey)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-12-01
- Genres: Films, cinema, Television, Radio / podcasts

## Description

Dame Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer star as old flames Jean Pargetter and Lionel Hardcastle. Their love story was all set for a happy ending in the 1950s when Jean was a student nurse and Lionel, a young army officer. But he was posted abroad and they lost touch. Thirty-eight years later, Lionel has returned to London to publish his autobiography and, through a strange coincidence, he is reunited with Jean who has set up a secretarial agency. Specially adapted in six episodes for BBC Radio 2, this hugely popular BBC1 bittersweet comedy about the reunited lovers asks the burning question: 'Can the flame of passion still flicker in middle age?

## Editions

### As Time Goes By

- Publisher: bbc_digital_audio
- Medium: audio
- Length: 2 h 56 min
- Narrated by: Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer
- ISBN: 978-14-4587-943-7
- Published: 2012-12-01
- Language: en_GB